Chain conveyer.



CHAIN GONVEYER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18, 1913.

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To all whom it may concern stamping or'printing press,

goods to be dried in a vertical or slightly in clined position. ln'order that such chains may be able to receive a large number of tablets or plates on the shortest possible length and yet may be fed automatically from the various devices I for guiding the tines have already been propin carries a tine, the

- of the tines is chains are employed which travel posed which are intended to cause each tine to reach the feeding place in exactly the same position as the preceding tines. The use of guided tines of course makes such chains ex- Ordinary conveyer bands on which the tines are fixed any how are indeed cheaper, but have the disadvantage that the sheet metal tablets, plates or the like press on the tines and cause the band :0 bend more or less, according as to whether it is traveling over a carrying roller or hanging free. Moreover it is very difiicult to prevent the freshly printed plates touching one another. In link chains of the ordinary kind in which each chain link or each chain distance between the tines is unnecessarily large and the chain and particularly the drying oven must be made of unnecessary length, in order to enable it to receive a suflicient number of plates. Now in accordance with this invention an exact adjustment of the tines with a cheaply made chain and a close arrangement obtained by the tines being. made in one piece with'the links and pins of the chain and if necessary a plurality-of side by relatively to one antremely expensive.

side'and are displaced other by l. 't, i, etc., of one division.

An example of construction is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l. is a diagram of the arrangement of the chain between the press and the dry- Specification of Iiet'ters' Patl'int. appihatlonfiled November 18, 1813. Serial No. 800,829.

residing at ave , the chain in the I a 2. A feeding chain comprising a plurality Q ing oven; Figif, a side view partially in sect1 n of the c in; Fi 3, an end view, and Fig. 4, a plan view 0 two chains which for the purpose of dividin the distance between the tines travel side liy side and are displaced relatively to one another by half a chain division in the direction of transport.

Between the table I) from which the sheet metal plates 0 or the like are pushed between the tines D, the conveyor chain travels over a chain drum into the drying passage of the ov en e. or the sake of clearness the chain 18 only shown as set with tines D over a short section, between which tines the plates 0 are placed, so that they do not rest on their freshly printed side.

As shown in Fig. 4 the entire conveyor apparatus consists of four separate chains which are arranged on both sides o1 a central axis indicated by a dotted line. The two inner chains lie, for example at a suitable distance afrom the center and are displaced, in the direction of transport, to half a chain division relatively to the two outer traveling chains. Clearly where it is not necessary to make thedistance between the sheet metal plates so close in order to utilize fully the length of the dryin chamber, the two outer or the two inner c ains may be employed alone.

The actual chain, links consist in known manner of coiled wire H. The tines D D of the chain are made in one piece with the link members E and the chain pins F. Each chain pin F carries a member preferabl shaped like a roller G which cooperates wit the teeth of the chain drum f.

I declare that what I claim is 1. A feeding chain comprising a plurality of links each of which consists of a pin one end of which is bent so as to be capable of engaging the next pin and the other end of which is bent so as to be capable of engaging the next'pin and continues at right angles to form of a tine.

of links, tines formed inte ral with said links and substantially at rig it angles thereto, and wire coils wou'nd about the pins of said links so as to form a support for the material carried by said chain;

A feeding mechanism comprising a plurality of chains, tines on the links of said chains, and means to move said chains parequal to a fraction of the lengths of the links on said chains.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed in name ibis 27th day of October 15 1913, in t e presence of two subscribing wit-- messes.

OTTO SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

FRIDA KLAIBER, PAULINE Mi'JLLeR. 

